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Despite the recently announced cancellation of the Headway Festival that was due to take place in the Netherlands in May, disappointed fans will still have the chance to see one of the bands originally scheduled to appear, as Norwegian avant-gardists VULTURE INDUSTRIES will stage their “Turning Golem” show as planned. The “Turning Golem” show is part concert rooted in the heavier segment of experimental/progressive metal and part theatre performance in conjunction with the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY, and it will be the last time that fans will be able to see “Turning Golem” in Western Europe. The show will take place at P60 in Amstelveen on the 3rd May and VULTURE INDUSTRIES will include extra songs at the end of the performance to make it a special evening for those who were hoping to attend the festival.

With a career spanning 10 years and with over 100 shows under their belts, VULTURE INDUSTRIES’ live performances are well known both for their technical skill and the eccentric and somewhat manic antics of frontman Bjørnar E. Nilsen, whose on-stage weirdness has garnered a multitude of fans for the band over the years. VULTURE INDUSTRIES released their third full-length album, “The Tower” on Season of Mist at the end of last year and recently announced that their second-full length album, “The Malefactor’s Bloody Register”, which was released on Dark Essence Records in 2010, will appear as a deluxe vinyl edition on Blood Music in 2015.

Later in May VULTURE INDUSTRIES will hit the road with DORDEDUH and BLUTMOND on an eleven date tour that will take in countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and Slovenia. As well as tickets being available from the usual ticketing agencies, special personalised tickets designed by the Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu, will be sold exclusively through the webshops of the individual bands. Each ticket will feature the name of the purchaser and will be signed by all the bands. Routing for what will be known as the “Branches” tour as follows:

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The title track from SARKOM’s upcoming album “Doomsday Elite” has been debuted today by Dark Essence Records. With the album set for release on the 15th October, “Doomsday Elite” includes guest appearances from Psy Coma (THE KOVENANT), Haan (SVARTTJERN), Nachtgarm (NEGATOR), Thrawn (PARADIGMA, ex DØDHEIMSGARD, ex NOCTURNAL BREED) and V. Larsen, and was mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll at Strype Audio. Artwork for the eight-track album, which will appear in both CD and vinyl versions, is by MK. “Perv”. The track, “Doomsday Elite”, can be heard above and at http://soundcloud.com/dark-essence-records/sarkom-doomsday-elite

The lineup on “Doomsday Elite”, which will be SARKOM’s third full-length album, includes the band’s two core members – founder and frontman Unsgaard (SO MUCH FOR NOTHING) on vocals and Sgt V (SVARTTJERN) on bass, as well as former guitarists Sagstad and Strönen, and former drummer and co-founder Renton, on effects. URGEHAL’s Uruz was brought in to record drums for the album. Track listing on “Doomsday Elite” as follows:

Unsgaard is firm in his assertion that SARKOM has never been a band content to acquiesce to the calls from certain sections of today’s generation of Black Metal fans who seem to think that conforming to an imaginary set of rules is a requirement for bands. “Like the originators of the genre, SARKOM keeps developing and stretching its boundaries. We don’t want to find ourselves repeating a formula just because it has proved successful. “Doomsday Elite” is not “Bestial Supremacy” part II, and with four songwriters all from different backgrounds, it is definitely an album that crosses the barriers”.

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The 29th of November is the date that has been set for the release of “Futile” the debut full-length album from EUDAIMONY, the band formed by former DARK FORTRESS frontman Matthias Jell and NAGLFAR’s Marcus E. Norman (BEWITCHED, HAVAYOTH, ANCIENT WISDOM). The eight-track album, which will be released on Germany’s Cold Dimensions label, includes guest appearances by Mick Moss of ANTIMATTER and Schwadorf of EMPYRIUM and THE VISION BLEAK. The vocal recordings, mixing and mastering of “Futile” were carried out by Markus Stock at the Klangschmeide Studio E and the album artwork is by Ben Borucki (Irrleuchten) from the German band SONIC REIGN. The title track from “Futile” was debuted recently and can be heard at http://soundcloud.com/eudaimony/eudaimony-futile

With a lineup that includes Jell on vocals and Norman on guitars, bass, synthesizer and programming, Jörg Heemann (SECRETS OF THE MOON) on drums and Peter Honsalek (NACHTREICH) on viola, the natural assumption would be that EUDAIMONY’s music fits somewhere within the Black Metal/DSBM genres. But that is too simplistic an assumption to make where EUDAIMONY is concerned, because this is a band that explores the hopelessness and futility of life, both lyrically and visually, as exemplified in Jell’s lyrics and the sense of mystery in Borucki’s artwork, whilst the music itself forms an atmospheric soundscape of rich melodies that range from the fragile and haunting to the powerfully dark and brooding.

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Avant-garde metallers VULTURE INDUSTRIES have revealed the track listing and cover art for “The Tower”, the band’s third full-length album, and their first on the Season of Mist label, as well as debuting the title track from the album in the form of a lyric video which can which can be seen at the following locations:

Due to hit the streets on the September 27th (October 1st in North America), “The Tower” will be released on Digipak CD, solid white gatefold double LP, transparent green gatefold double LP and black gatefold double LP. The LP versions, as well as the digital edition, will include the bonus track ”Blood Don’t Eliogabalus”. All physical formats, along with exclusive merchandise are already available for pre-order from http://vultureindustries.bigcartel.com/ Track Listing for “The Tower” as follows:

1: The Tower
2: Divine – Appalling
3: The Hound
4: Blood On The Trail
5: The Dead Won’t Mind
6: A Knife Between Us
7: The Pulse of Bliss
8: Sleepwalkers
9: Lost Among Liars

Artwork for “The Tower” was designed by renowned artist Costin Chioreanu, who had this to say: “Working on the cover of the new VULTURE INDUSTRIES was more than an interesting experience. The stars aligned and suddenly I discovered the opportunity to create the kind of imagery I had been dreaming about for years. “The Tower” is a very complex, smart and sadly true story to which I could relate, so this great project ended up with more illustrations than originally intended. The theme was so complex and so well put into words and music that I simply could not resist it. Yes, there is a huge influence coming from the German expressionism, but expanded through my own ways of visual expression and improved with some elements specific to the visual and philosophical analysis of society. There is surrealism, expressionism, contemporary imagery, and even some ancient graphic visual inputs. All in all, “The Tower” is an extremely well done observation of the reality that surrounds us as well as being a beautiful piece of art and I am extremely happy that I had the honour to illustrate it”.

As previously announced, VULTURE INDUSTRIES are due to hit the road in September for a series of European dates guesting with LEPROUS on the first leg of their European Coal Tour. Starting in the band’s home country on September 13th, the tour routing is as follows:

VULTURE INDUSTRIES are also scheduled to perform 3 dates this year with the TURNING GOLEM project . Part concert rooted in the heavier segment of experimental/progressive metal and part theatre performance, TURNING GOLEM is about the relative subject of “truth”. It is about our need to define ourselves and our world by ways of constructed infallible systems of truths; about our need to believe in order to justify our own existence; about our urge for meaning and the anguish of the void. TURNING GOLEM will be performed at the following:

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The following pages are all OFFICIAL Facebook band pages and are the ONLY Official pages on Facebook for the bands listed. They are all run both by band members themselves and myself (except where stated). If you want accurate information, music, up to date news, tour dates, photographs, videos and merchandise these are the places to find them. Some of these bands are managed by me, some I only handle their Public Relations, and some are a Dark Essence Records Band who have asked me to help run their pages. If you are interested in booking any of these bands, please feel free to contact me – if they are not under my management, I will be happy to pass on the info to the appropriate persons. As always, please support your favourite bands by sharing the pages, or any items on there that you like, with your friends. Thank you! And while you’re skimming through this, you might like to enjoy listening to the bands on the player above and discovering ones you didn’t know before.

MANIAC/SKITLIV (run only by me)http://www.facebook.com/skitlivofficialPLEASE NOTE, MANIAC HIMSELF DOES NOT USE FACEBOOK, HE DOES NOT HAVE A PERSONAL PROFILE AND THE VARIOUS PROFILES CLAIMING TO BE HIM ON FACEBOOK ARE FAKE.

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